# exponent
## English
### Etymology

From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɛkˈspəʊnənt/, /ˈɛkspənənt/, /ɪkˈkspəʊnənt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ɛkˈspoʊnənt/, /ˈɛkspoʊnənt/
** Audio (Canadá):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ekˈspəʉnənt/
* Hyphenation: ex‧po‧nent

### Noun

exponent (plural exponents)
* One who expounds, represents or advocates.
** 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey, who was quite as capable an exponent as her husband.
** 1997, Nancy Sherman, Making a Necessity of Virtue: Aristotle and Kant on Virtue, page 1:To think of Kant as an exponent of virtue may seem to some readers itself novel and not easily associated with the Kant familiar to discussions of justice and rights.
* (mathematics) The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the $3$ in $2^{3}=8$.
    Synonym: power
* (mathematics, obsolete) The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the $2$ in ${\sqrt[{2}]{r}}=b$.
    Synonyms: degree, power
** 1711, [Jacques Ozanam], “Abridgement of Algebra. Chapter I. Of Monomes.”, in Daniel Hilman, transl., M. Ozanam's Introduction to the Mathematicks or His Algebra: Wherein the Rudiments of that Most Useful Science are Made Plain to a Mean Capacity. Done out of French, London: Printed for R. Sare at Gray's-Inn-Gate in Holborn, →OCLC, problem IV (“To Divide a Quantity by a Quantity”), page 9:A Power that hath neither the Signs $+$ or $-$ before it, is look'd upon as Affirmative, and if it be preceded by a Number that contains the Root ſought and its Exponent may be commenſured by the Exponent of the Root; namely for the Square Root by 2, for the Cube by 3, &c. it will contain the Root ſought.
** 1717, Philip Ronayne, “Of the Indices, or Exponents of Powers”, in A Treatise of Algebra in Two Books: The First Treating of the Arithmetical, and the Second of the Geometrical Part, book I, part V, London: Printed for W[illiam] Innys at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, page 69:And univerſally the Exponent of the m Power, is m times the Exponent of the Root, and the Exponent of the m-Root (or ${\frac {1}{m}}$ Power) is ${\frac {1}{m}}$ times the Exponent of the Root.
** 1845, Dionysius Lardner, “Algebra”, in Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, editors, Encyclopædia Metropolitana; or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan: Comprising the Twofold Advantage of a Philosophical and an Alphabetical Arrangement, with Appropriate Engravings, volume I (Pure Sciences, volume 1), London: B. Fellowes [et al.], →OCLC, page 534:The notation by which the root is expressed, is the mark ${\sqrt}$ called a radical, placed over the letter, with an exponent to the left indicating the order of the root.
* (linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
** 2015, Ruth Kramer, The Morphosyntax of Gender, page 83:However, there have been no examples presented of gender systems where the plain n triggers one exponent for gender agreement, and the male and female ns together trigger a different exponent.
* (computing) The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

#### Coordinate terms

* (computing): significand, mantissa

#### Derived terms

* critical exponent
* exponentiable
* exponential
* exponentiation
* exponent of inseparability
* lifting the exponent
* Lyapunov exponent
* preexponent
* pre-exponent

#### Related terms

* expone
* expose
* expound

#### Translations

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### See also

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
* successor
* addition, summation:
    (augend) + (addend) = (total)
    (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)
* subtraction:
    (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
* multiplication, factorization:
    (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
    (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
* division:
    (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)
    (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)
       Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining
* exponentiation:
    (base) = (power)
* root extraction:
    √ (radicand) = (root)
* logarithmization:
    log$_{(base)}$ (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛksponɛnt]

### Noun

exponent m inan
* (mathematics) exponent (the power to which something is raised)
    Synonym: mocnitel
    V zápisu 1,45E10 je 1,45 mantisa a 10 exponent. (In the notation 1.45E10, 1.45 is the mantissa and 10 the exponent.) ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Related terms

* See póza

#### See also

* mantisa

### Noun

exponent m anim (female equivalent exponentka)
* exponent (person who advocates a position)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “exponent”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “exponent”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “exponent”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin expōnēns. The sense “typical representative” is from English exponent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɛks.poːˈnɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ex‧po‧nent
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

exponent m (plural exponenten)
* (mathematics) exponent (number by which a base is raised to a power)
* exponent; someone or something that characterically represents or advocates something, typical representative or advocate

#### Derived terms

* exponentiaal
* exponentieel

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: eksponen

## Latin
### Verb

expōnent
* third-person plural future active indicative of expōnō

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Exponent or Latin exponens.

### Noun

exponent m (plural exponenți)
* exponent

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Noun

exponent m inan
* (mathematics) exponent

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “exponent”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

exponent c
* (mathematics) exponent

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | exponent | exponents |
| singular | definite | exponenten | exponentens |
| plural | indefinite | exponenter | exponenters |
| plural | definite | exponenterna | exponenternas |